When a woman conceives, she has several questions that run through her mind. Every thought is related to the welfare of the creation she is working on. Her hormones change and the increase in progesterone levels add to the discomfort of her growing body. In today’s world, working is inevitable. A lot of women do not have the luxury of staying home. Resting or working becomes a choice. I sometimes ask my clients, obstetrics is also part of a career; to have a baby is important for your self-growth and transformation into the next phase of life. Sometimes, a baby is a surprise. No one in the family is ready yet. Instead of creating too many unwelcoming thoughts, it is important to accommodate as life happens. Just flow with the life surprises. If you are a control freak, this area is not under your control, learn to surrender.

One question i come across often is, is there a way around prenatal discomfort? We forget that our body is doing all that it has to, to make room for the little one. I personally taught throughout my pregnancy. A lot of women work till their due date, or till the baby is ready to show up. Discomforts exists in all pregnancies. Frequency and intensity differ with each woman and with every new pregnancy. It is up to you to accept the discomfort and figure out solutions or create millions of thoughts of how hard whole journey is. Keep the end results on mind that will create a joyous outlook on the entire journey.

These are some of the ways you can manage working and being pregnant at the same time. Accept that your mind slows down and in certain situations you can forget things. Do not assume that your body is the same. I like to write notes to remind me of a lot of things as I progress in my pregnancy. It is proved scientifically that we lose brain cells with each pregnancy. I have had 4 of them, so I am not sure about the count of my brain cells. I have had such amazing experiences with each pregnancy. I have gotten better in managing it now. Below are 5 types of meditation that helped ease my life and bring harmony in my family and my journey with each pregnancy.

Meditation can improve your concentration and also result in the baby’s ability to be calm and concentrate. It also provides foundation for bonding that happens later when the baby arrives. It removes frustrations, and brings clarity into women's mind. Pregnancy can trigger certain emotions that are not worth taking a ride on, as everything is absorbed a tiny little one inside you.

Simple breathing (So-Hum Meditation): I usually do this as soon as I get home. It energizes me immediately. When I was carrying my little one, I drove an hour and half everyday back and forth, as my commute to teach at different federal buildings in DC. When I got home, I always had a sink full of dishes and other kids who needed me to cook dinner for them. Sometimes I had no food, if I reached home hungry. What I cooked before I left home would not wait for me, so I always made sure to stop and eat before I reached home. No one wants to receive a hungry preggers, neither are you in a state to give all a smile and hug. Some days, I sat in the car and took 5-10 min on focusing on my breathing. Each inhale I named as SO and each exhale is named HUM. It erased all my restless thoughts. My mind calmed down as I visualized going through the whole evening, helping my family. It helped me practice acceptance, instead of expecting everyone in the family to understand your tiredness and exhaustion. I come across several clients who struggle with managing their emotions when they get home. They take complete liberty in throwing their frustration from the whole day on the near and dear ones. We, somewhere, ask for our family to somehow understand our tired and exhaustion with out communicating it. We tend to give our best to all the people whom we interact through out the day, sometimes even strangers. We tend to miss use the love and hand out our crap to people who love us the most, our family. So-Hum Meditation has always helped me to not show resentment, frustration and exhaustion on my family. I went home lovingly asking, “How can I serve you all?”. I vibrating at peacefulness and calmness, soon made everyone pitch in. All the dishes were done by my hubby. He even helped out in cooking. Within few days, they understood I have long days and asked me sit on couch as they all got together to be a pleasant and happy family. I understood the meaning of "Giving pleasantly" as I practiced acceptance.

Self-Affirmations: We as women work a lot. We, deep in our hearts love to expect people to notice and appreciate us. We sometimes live all our life waiting for someone to just compliment and reaffirm that we give a lot. I usually tell my clients, no one is waiting to give you an Oscar at the end of our journey. We, establish the foundation of how people should treat us. I ask all my clients to appreciate themselves. Affirmations help us feed in awesomeness that exists in the world. Our minds love to hear good words. According to research, Human brain listens to what we say out loud and images we create along. If I created images of the sink full of dirty dishes and everyone ignoring me when I get home, your mind will resent your family; and create energies that aren’t pleasant and harmonious. When the baby you are carrying sees world through you, you want the new member to love and share a harmonious relationship with each member of the family. It is unfair to the arriving soul to have resentful and unloving images and feelings towards the family members. Self-affirmations reassure the baby to sense, how amazing the world is. Images that emphasize everyone is amazing, ready to receive the little one, creates warmth and welcoming environment inside and outside. We all work hard and would love to provide all that we can for our kids. Affirmations provide our mind to believe in good things and when every cell in your body listens to how you talk to yourself, it reaches good energies to the growing baby. The baby naturally gains confidence and this will in return reduce all kinds of complications in labor. Self-affirmation, words that are positive for yourself, your family, and strong affirmative sentences all results into manifesting our amazing reality.

Guided visual meditation: I have several guided meditations that I do on myself every night before I fall asleep. All my babies have slept through out the night, leaving me with a great night sleep. With each guided mediation, my aches and pains reduced. I fell asleep magically, even with the worst severe heart burn that was a nightmare towards end of my pregnancy. As I taught my classes, I took participants through guided meditations too and that added to a calm baby during the days. I drove and taught without taking too many pee breaks. My baby's were completely calm and gentle. They took time to listen to my voice better. Baby's from the womb recognizes mother’s tone of voice. It builds foundation of listening and talking calmly. I personally have noticed babies do not cry much once they are out of intrauterine life, as guided meditation gives your mind to add images to reality.

Connecting to higher self: We all know that there is something higher than us. Spirits choose you as mom for a reason and karmic bonding happens in the womb. Ask your higher self to communicate and connect with the growing member of the family that bonds you and the baby better. I personally have best relationship with all my kids. I’ve practiced Raja yoga meditation for a long time. I am aware of whom I have a karmic relationship with and who is the new soul that I am supposed to bond with. If you can imagine an example of a play or drama, we do not choose the actors; director takes responsibility to choose actors for us to play with. When we first meet them, we can recognize that we have played a few roles with them before bond instantly, or the spirit is a new addition to the drama cast, needs effort to bond. I could communicate with the higher selves of all my kids. I teach this meditation to most of my clients when they have a spouse with difference of opinion or kids who seem to not listen, and there is a mismatch in their opinions. It is beautiful to connect with your higher self and the spirit who is playing a role with you as a family member. Miscommunications and the difference of opinions ceases to exist as you understand yourself and their patterns better.

Gratitude: I cannot mention this enough. I have had several clients who give me such positive feedback after starting a gratitude journal. Gratitude as an energy is at higher frequency, it can manifest anything you want on this planet. Universe is a reflecting mirror, gratitude towards life, all that you are blessed with and this moment is reflected back at you. what you put out and say out loud, more of same energy comes back to you. I have manifested an umbrella on a raining day, free grocery from wholefoods, and a man who carried car batteries to the third floor to restart my van on the coldest day. I am amazingly lucky and gratitude has helped me in all that. I call it my powerful, ultra-pure fuel which generates miracles after miracles in our lives. I express my gratitude for choosing me as “mother” to all my kids. After working with women who struggle to attract a soul as their baby, I realize what a blessed women I am. It is kids who bring pleasure to us, even if my living room is full of mulch and food crumbs. It is luxury to have and enjoy smiles and cries, to support another soul to play their part in this reality. They see the whole world through me, since god cannot be everywhere, he created mothers. If each mother saw the world as a beautiful place and created babies with complete gratitude, we as a planet will definitely vibrate at a higher frequency.

I am in bliss, with over pouring gratitude. I get to write my experience and I have "You" to read this. I hope just reading this article may help you as a reader to feel gratitude. Thank you!